England
the sapporo snow festival is not really celebrating anything. It is just a tradition that was started by a group of high school students in 1950.
Finland.
Started ... blah blah blah. go ask someone who knows.
Some do, but it has only been the past few years since South Africans have started celebrating Halloween and therefore it is still only a small section of South Africans who celebrate this.
Germany
England
The Jewish sages who instituted the celebrating of Hanukkah 2170 years ago were in Judea (Israel) and were acting with the concurrence of the Jewish sages elsewhere as well. Jews everywhere commenced celebrating it.
Halloween first started in 1846.
Germany started the tradition of decorating the Christmas tree
British
The reason people decorate their houses for Halloween is because It is showing other people that Halloween is fun to celebrate and to show that when you go trick-or-treating, you can stop at that house for sweets!
The celtics started to do HALLOWEEN after Ireland....they celebrated the night of ghost and goblins!